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[quote name='Shockwave' timestamp='1358443643' post='1939333'] Already on this a few days ago and its close to me for pickup Outta the way everyone! I have put a fairly high bid on it. [/quote] Successful?

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1358456224' post='1939676'] I would say that that is a pretty decent old bass and has probably never had any adjustment judging by the state of the original truss cover etc. Probabl all it needs is tightening up mate. [/quote] Someone's had a look at least once - TRC is upside down

[quote name='mc2' timestamp='1358413134' post='1938568'] WOW....a TON of misinformation here. [/quote] Yes, and your opinions being presented as fact isn't helping.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110998384416 Ends tonight, price at the moment is pretty good.

As an additional side note: if you get a weak, thin sounding result with both pickups turned up then you need to reverse the connection of one of them (the hot and the earth). It's a 50/50 shot, I got it wrong with my Yamaha BB450. Reversed the bridge pickup, and then it was sorted.

Have you tried adjusting the pickup heights?

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1357942584' post='1931015'] What's different apart from the pickup ? [/quote] Tug bar, truss rod adjustment at headstock instead of heel, slightly different decal (missing the contour body thing at the end).

[quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1358126432' post='1933667'] PS: Neep, if big ears aren't doing you any good ill happily take your poor RD for my LP [/quote] Heh, nice try but the RD has the Gibson branded Schaller BMs and they're fine by me, just don't like those Grovers

[quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1358124192' post='1933655'] if they switched those Gotoh tuners for the Schaller's i may have considered it. [sub]i've had my days of 2+2 headstocks and little plastic rings snapping or replacing tuners ("(-.-)[/sub] [/quote] Heh, another point where opinion is divided, I happen to like the mini buttons, I think the latest issue full size Grovers look like the kind of giant ears that kids at school get grief from their peers for Gibson don't seem to want to use Schaller anymore, BMs stick out a little less than the Grovers.

Giant Steps is my second favourite Boo Radleys album.

Matthew Norrie, Aberdeen, Aberdeen (Aberdeen is its own council area. A lot of people put Aberdeenshire. This is technically incorrect )

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1358046563' post='1932386'] I think I'd still take the Jackson, if just to avoid the 3-point bridge. The one I'm looking at is the 2013 EB, but in the smoked sunburst - which has yet to arrive on these shores, also. [/quote] The three point bridge is easily worked around. There will be a Hipshot Supertone on every flat top three point wearing Gibson I ever own The EB eh? Dunno where I stand on it. Nice to see them try something new, but I'm not sure I like the looks. I am warming to the idea of the G-3 reissue, but would have a 5ply bwbwb pickguard made, single ply looks cheap and not quite right, to me at least.

I'm up for it, should it make it all the way up to Aberdeen

Barrel jacks go bad. There isn't really a fix to them, being all enclosed. You can get a suitable replacement from Maplin (Maplin code N39GB, Neutrik NYS2203) for £2.99. You have to cut off the cable grip bit, and make sure you solder the wires back in exactly the same order as before, or else the battery will drain constantly and you'll be replacing it every month or so regardless of how much you use it.

Was it wise to make it the same day as the Moffat bash? I do entertain ideas of attending other bashes and this one is probably the second nearest one to Aberdeen, but it's no much use if they're going to clash. I'm good, but I'm not two places at once good

It would be nice to have a definitive essay on the subject, although if the mystery and speculation were squashed then there might be a reduction in threads and replies on here

[quote name='skelf' timestamp='1357805117' post='1928528'] Do you have contact details for Steven I can't get in touch with him the mail address I have is bouncing back. [/quote] I don't have an email address, but I've sent him a message on bookface that you've been looking for him. Hopefully he'll get back to you.

Ooh, I know the answer to this one ... ME!

Are you talking about the Schaller 3D? If so, doesn't it match up directly with holes 1, 3 and 5 on a standard Fender bass?

When I saw the thread title, I thought it was about the agents of the taxman

I have used frankly awful equipment in the past (especially when I was younger) and there is no way I want to return to those days. I'm not obsessive about it (my left and right speaker are wired using different types of wire, for instance - oh, the blasphemy!) but to my ears what I have sounds good (Marantz PM-48 amp, Marantz CD-63mkII CD player, Marantz graphic equaliser thingybob whose model number evades me, Mission 730 speakers), and I wouldn't want something that sounds less smooth, less "spacious" or basically just plain good than what I have currently. You can't have moments like chuckling with your other half about the stereo separation while listening to "Unsquare Dance" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet on a crappy little speaker dock thing.